Directions: Five office colleagues, Anwesha, Sid, Wasif, Pamela and Naba, were instructed by their common supervisor to bond better between themselves, as they all were new to the organization and each other. Hence each of them decided to take some personal time out with every other colleague and choose a common place where the two of them would go on an outing. Each of them were given five choices - Long Drive, Movie, Cafe, Art Exhibition and Pub. Also, each of them had to ensure that the place mutually chosen by him and the other four, were all distinct. Pamela and Sid decide to go to 'Barista', which is a Café on Park Row, while Wasif and Anwesha decide to go to 'CCD', which too is a Cafe. Wasif and Naba decided to go out together neither to a Pub, nor to a Movie, even though they had no such restriction with anybody else. Pamela got into an agreement with the other four into going to all the places except for a Pub. Naba and Sid had always longed to go for a Long Drive, and it was their obvious choice as well.Q. For how many pairs, can we say where they intend to plan their outing?a)1b)2c)3d)All PairsCorrect answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer?

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Directions: Five office colleagues, Anwesha, Sid, Wasif, Pamela and Naba, were instructed by their common supervisor to bond better between themselves, as they all were new to the organization and each other. Hence each of them decided to take some personal time out with every other colleague and choose a common place where the two of them would go on an outing. Each of them were given five choices - Long Drive, Movie, Cafe, Art Exhibition and Pub. Also, each of them had to ensure that the place mutually chosen by him and the other four, were all distinct. Pamela and Sid decide to go to 'Barista', which is a Café on Park Row, while Wasif and Anwesha decide to go to 'CCD', which too is a Cafe. Wasif and Naba decided to go out together neither to a Pub, nor to a Movie, even though they had no such restriction with anybody else. Pamela got into an agreement with the other four into going to all the places except for a Pub. Naba and Sid had always longed to go for a Long Drive, and it was their obvious choice as well.

Q. For how many pairs, can we say where they intend to plan their outing?

a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
All Pairs

Correct answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer?

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Based on the given information we can directly construct the table as follows:-

Now, Wasif and Naba are both against going out together to a Pub or for a Movie. Also Long Drive and Cafe are out of the question for them, as seen in the table, no two rows or columns can have a repetition, since each of them had to ensure that the place mutually chosen by him and the other four, were all distinct. Hence Wasif and Naba must have decided to go to an Art Exhibition. Pamela got into an agreement with the other four into going to all the places except for Pub. Hence Pamela and Naba must have gone for Movie, as Cafe, Long Drive and Art Exhibition are not possible. Hence completing the Pamela row/column, we get; Pamela must have decided to go with Wasif for a Long Drive, and must have decided to go with Anwesha to an Art Exhibition.

Filling up the remaining table, we get that Anwesha and Naba decide to go to a Pub, Anwesha and Sid to a Movie and Wasif and Sid to a Pub.

From the final table we can see that we have information on the outing destination for all possible pairs.

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